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Agile UI Development in .NET: View-Model

October 23rd, 2009
Urs Enzler

After the posts (table of contents) in which I covered why we need an agile UI design pattern, it’s big picture and the needed tools, I start digging into sample code. I’ll show in each post a small part of the whole picture. If you want to get all at once then you find the source of all samples at http://sourceforge.net/projects/procollee. ProCollEE is my playground to experiment with WPF and UI design.

Lets start

Yes, let’s start. But where?

There is one UI design pattern – presenter first (link) – that explicitly states where to start in its name. But unfortunately, the presenter first pattern packs too many responsibilities into the presenter. Therefore, not the best source to get an answer from.

But we have to start somewhere, don’t we?

In my experience, I normally know what has to be visualized in a dialog or window, but I don’t know yet how exactly the data is visualized or where to get it from.

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